Divine attribution?: The interaction of religious and secular beliefs on climate change attitudes

After five decades of research, there is still little consensus about the relation of religious variables to environmental attitudes. Even putting aside variations in sampling and measurement, we still have doubts about where modest consensus exists—the role of religious beliefs. Religious beliefs,...

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Authors: Djupe, Paul A. 1971- (Author) ; Burge, Ryan P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2023
In: Politics and religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 110-128
Further subjects:B Climate Change
B Public Opinion
B Religious Beliefs
B Experiment
B Religion And Politics
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Summary:After five decades of research, there is still little consensus about the relation of religious variables to environmental attitudes. Even putting aside variations in sampling and measurement, we still have doubts about where modest consensus exists—the role of religious beliefs. Religious beliefs, such as mastery over nature, are more unstable than previously considered. Moreover, more importantly, these studies have generally failed to consider the role of secular beliefs about environmental problems and the interaction they may have with religion. Using data from a 2012 Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey, we find religious variables have effects conditional on secular beliefs. Moreover, we draw upon an embedded experiment that shows instability in religious dominionism—the dominant religious effect in previous work. The results suggest previous reports of religious effects are not wrong, but overstated, and eliding secular beliefs is a serious sin of omission.
ISSN:1755-0491
Contains:Enthalten in: Politics and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S1755048322000293